T-Pain Sent This Teen A Stolen Quote For His Yearbook -- And The School Ran It

One high school senior is ending his school year on a note that only T-Pain could hit, thanks to a memorable yearbook quote.

When Gabriel Silvan, a 17-year-old student at Kentwood High School in Covington, Washington, tweeted T-Pain last year for inspiration for his senior yearbook quote, he didn’t think the hip-hop artist would actually respond.

One day after tweeting his request ― “give me a senior quote please:)” ― T-Pain obliged.

Silvan, surprised that T-Pain took the time to answer, sent the singer an excited shoutout ― “YOOOOOO TPAIN!!!!” ― then submitted the suggestion to his yearbook staff.

Six months later, Kentwood High School’s yearbooks came out.

“I’ve been a fan of T-Pain since I got my first MP3 player in 2007,” Silvan told HuffPost. “I never thought he would [respond] but when did I was ecstatic.”

While T-Pain’s suggested quote sounds like something he would croon in Auto-Tune, it’s not actually an original quote. Those words of wisdom were made famous by 1970s Major League Baseball star Oscar Gamble.